While Tai is serving a 2 year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, all of his emails and photos will be posted here so that others can see the work that is being done, learn a little bit more about his faith and share in this time of growth.

Monday, October 10, 2016

Transfers!

Hey, my favorite people!

Man, oh man where do I begin? So to start off, transfers aretomorrow, and I'm leaving the South Side! 😢😰😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭I'm heading to the Northern most Part of the mission as a Zone Leaderwith Elder Hansen, one of the missionaries I came out with. We aregoing to be whitewashing as well, so that should be fun... Hahaha I amreally excited for this next transfer. I'm going to be in an all newarea of the mission, and I get to go on exchanges with all thedifferent Elders up there, and we have the opportunity to teach atZone Training meetings! To be honest with you, transfer calls werevery surprising for both me, and Elder Fuchigami. Transfer callsalways come the Saturday before any changes occur, however on Fridaynight we got a call from our mission president. It had us a littleworried because he doesn't usually call us. My companion answered thephone and they talked for a little while, and then he handed the phoneto me. President asked a couple questions and then then told me thathe was calling me to be a zone leader, although he did not tell mewhere or with whom I should be serving with. About five minutes afterI hung the phone up, president called us back, and this time he wantedto speak with my companion, where he found out that he will betraining again! This will be Elder Fuchigami's 6th time training.Super excited!

On Thursday we had the opportunity to go to the temple with Larryfor the first time. It was awesome. Right before we got ready to

change for baptisms, a temple worker talked with us about thedifferent symbols that are in the baptismal font, and how the place ofChrist's baptism represents His descention below all things. The riverJordan is the lowest point on the earth with "living water," and oneof Christ's names is the fountain of living waters. It was also myfirst time being the baptizer, and I loved it! Larry wasn't able toget into the water, but he was confirmed for all twenty names we haddone.

We also had our district finding on Friday! We set up a tablenear a CTA bus depot/train station and invited them to be baptized. Wehad to be so bold, I loved it! We met a lot of really good people andgained a lot of new potential investigators... Even though I won'teven be here in the area 😢

On Saturday we did some service for a brother in the ward whoneeded new front steps. The concrete steps in front of his home werecompletely destroyed, and we went over and helped repair them. It wasa lot of fun, intense work and I was able to learn a lot aboutcarpentry work. Elder Goggia, one of the Senior missionaries, andBrother Maxi, a member of the ward, both have lots of experience incarpentry and had to do a lot to fix these steps. First we clearedaway a lot of concrete with drills and chisels, then we did somemeasurements with the steps which some brothers used to create a moldfor the new steps out of some spare lumber, then we mixed and pouredand formed the concrete into the mold on the steps. This was prettymuch an all day project, and towards the end my job was to pour andsmooth out the concrete into the mold, and then form and smooth thesteps before the concrete settled. It was fun, and once I got the hangof it, I started to get some of the finer details in the process.Anyway it's definitely something I'd enjoy as a future career.

Speaking of work, Elder Goggia and his wife are from Alaska, andhe owns a fishing tour guide buisness called Hook-y Charters, and he'sreally good at what he does. Like, whenever general authorities go upto Alaska and they want to go fishing he takes them out. For examplePresident Hinkley and his wife went up and Elder Goggia took thefishing. THE PROPHET. HE TOOK THE PROPHET FISHING!!! So after mymission he has a job lined up for me in Alaska taking people fishingon the Kenai river!Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeecccccckkkkk yeah!!!

So that's about it for this week. Transfers are crazy, mydistrict is the best and will be missed greatly, and I'm going toAlaska eventually! Love y'all peeps.Love,Elder Fa'afetai Phipps

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